"Despite oft-repeated claims by the IPCC and its fawning apologists that the planet is heading for some kind of apocalyptic meltdown, the actual empirical evidence suggests precisely the opposite. Europe and the United States are buried in record amounts of snow every year, but somehow the alarmists manage to twist even this into 'evidence' of manmade global warming. Having hijacked both ends of the argument, they can’t lose. " NZ Coalition member Joe Fone writing on Scoop, claims warmist propagandists driven by money, not facts.